A Patent that Self-Replicates
Does Patent Exhaustion apply to the sale of self-replicating seeds? On February 19, the Supreme Court heard the oral argument in Bowman v. Monsanto on the application of patent exhaustion to patented self-replicating seeds. Under the doctrine of patent exhaustion, “the initial authorized sale of a patented item terminates all of the patent owner’s rights [...]
STLR Link Roundup – October 5, 2012
NYC Campus Receives A US Patent Officer This past Tuesday, the US Department of Commerce and Cornell University announced that a patent officer will be assigned to the new Cornell NYC Tech School set open in January. The school will be run by Cornell and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and will admit approximately 20 [...]